Some say they can’t create under LSD. This is the first time I did cross hatching and stipple work. I did this on LSD. The work shows exquisite self control.–Reg Hartt
Top LSD quotes
The only side effect of LSD is that it makes you realize you’ve been lied to your entire life.” – Unknown
LSD is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be. Albert Hofmann
Through my LSD experience and my new picture of reality, I became aware of the wonder of creation, the magnificence of nature and of the animal and plant kingdom. I became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us.–Albert Hofmann
Love is nature’s LSD. You’re going to see things that aren’t really there.–Dov Davidoff
Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.–Steve Jobs
Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here’s Tom with the Weather.–Bill Hicks
We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.–Jerry Garcia
LSD lets you in on something. When you’re tripping, the idea of race disappears; the idea of sex disappears; you don’t even know what species you are sometimes. And I don’t know of anybody who hasn’t come back from that being more humane, more thoughtful, more understanding.–Ken Kesey
Reality became for me a problem after my experience with LSD. Before, I had believed there was only one reality, the reality of everyday life. Just one true reality and the rest was imagination and was not real. But under the influence of LSD, I entered into realities which were as real and even more real than the one of everyday. And I thought about the nature of reality and I got some deeper insights.–Albert Hofmann
The LSD experience usually changes forever the worldview and basic life-orientation of all who experience it–Ralph Metzner
I’m here today because of LSD. LSD gave me the confidence to be who I am today. Completely.–John Waters
It (LSD) opened my eyes. We only use one-tenth of our brain. Just think of what we could accomplish if we could only tap that hidden part! It would mean a whole new world if the politicians would take LSD. There wouldn’t be any more war or poverty or famine.–Paul McCartney
Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very, very helpful in our society if used properly.–Robert Kennedy
Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy or too frightened, when we fail to speak up and speak out, we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice.–Robert Kennedy
LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same since, nor will we ever be, for LSD demonstrated, even to skeptics, that the mansions of heaven and gardens of paradise lie within each and all of us.–Terence McKenna
The function of the brain is to reduce all the available information and lock us into a limited experience of the world. LSD frees us from this restriction and opens us to a much larger experience.–Stanislav Grof
I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it has to do with piecing together new thoughts in your mind. Why is it that people think it’s so evil ? What is it about it that scares people so deeply, even the guy that invented it, what is it ? Because they’re afraid that there’s more to reality than they have confronted. That there are doors that they’re afraid to go in, and they don’t want us to go in there either, because if we go in we might learn something that they don’t know. And that makes us a little out of their control.–Ken Kesey
We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD. That’s what people forget…. They invented LSD to control people and what they did was give us freedom.–John Lennon
Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’–Jerry Garcia
TURN ON. to contact the ancient energies and wisdoms that are built into your nervous system. They provide unspeakable pleasure and revelation. TUNE IN. to harness and communicate these new perspectives in a harmonious dance with the external world. DROP OUT. detach yourself from the tribal game. current models of social adjustement – mechanized, computerized, socialized, intellectualized, televised, sanforized – make no sense to the new LSD generation who see clearly that American society is becoming an air-conditioned anthill.–Timothy Leary
[LSD] went on for years. I must have had a thousand trips. I used to just eat it all the time.–John Lennon
I was introduced to cannabis when I was 16. I realized the similarity to the mystical experiences I’d had – the enhancing of senses, the way it made thought more interesting. In 1965, before it became illegal, I was introduced to LSD. I thought it was extraordinary.–Amanda Feilding
LSD is really just a small chemical modification of a very old sacred drug of Mexico. LSD belongs, therefore, by its chemical structure and by its activity, in the group of the magic plants of Mesoamerica. It does not occur in nature as such, but it represents just a small chemical variation of natural material.–Albert Hofmann
Each child is poisoned by the society through teaching him ambition. Ambition is a poison far more dangerous than any alcohol can ever be, far more dangerous than marijuana or LSD, because ambition destroys your whole life. It keeps you moving in a false direction. It keeps you imagining, desiring, dreaming, it keeps you wasting your life. Ambition means a subtle creation of the ego, and once the ego is created you are in the grip of darkness. And the whole social structure depends on ambition.–Rajneesh
I had very good LSD, but the problem was – I tried making a film, or doing some filming, when I was on LSD, and it’s impossible. I couldn’t focus. I tried focusing, but when I looked through the lens, I’d see all different layers of focus, and I couldn’t find which was the real one behind the camera. And I just thought, this does not work, and I never tried that again.–Gaspar Noe
LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you.–Alan Watts
Substances like LSD, which give away a secret about the nature of the social game – the human game and what underlies it – are potentially dangerous, of course, like any good thing is. Electricity is dangerous, fire is dangerous, cars are dangerous, planes are dangerous, but not so dangerous as driving on the freeway. The only way to handle danger is to face it. If you start getting frightened of it, then you make it worse. Because you project onto it all kinds of bogeys and threats which don’t exist in it at all.–Alan Watts
The first time I took LSD, it just blew everything away. I had such an incredible feeling of well-being.–George Harrison
I did LSD and peyote in the late Sixties, before I got into cocaine. That was concurrent with my change from a straight comic to the album and counterculture period, and those drugs served their purpose. They helped open me up.–George Carlin
LSD was an incredible experience. Not that I’m recommending it for anybody else; but for me it kind of – it hammered home to me that reality was not a fixed thing. That the reality that we saw about us every day was one reality, and a valid one – but that there were others, different perspectives where different things have meaning that were just as valid. That had a profound effect on me.–Alan Moore
Very few people actually saw Andy’s films like Chelsea Girls where he filmed seven hours, ran it on two screens, where each scene was in a different room at the Chelsea Hotel with these people he called ‘Superstars” who were basically super-exhibitionists – the guy in one room high on LSD talking about masturbation, Brigid Berlin in another room playing a lesbian and shooting up people with amphetamines right through their jeans, it was all real and they were really doing it (though Brigid is now a proper lady), but you know Andy really did pre-date reality TV.–Bob Colacello
The consciousness-expanding drugs – the hallucinogens, such as cannabis, mescaline, LSD, Psylocybin – I think are useful to a writer up to a certain point. That is, they open psychic areas that would not otherwise be available to the writer. But I feel that once these areas have been opened and the writer has reached them, he is able to get back there in the future without the drug.–William S. Burroughs
“LSD opened up my mind and my heart and helped me to see things differently. I became more aware of the mysteries of existence and the interconnectedness of all things.” – Ram Dass
“LSD allowed me to explore the depths of my mind and confront my fears and insecurities. It was a transformative experience that helped me to grow and evolve as a person.” – Aldous Huxley
“LSD showed me that everything is interconnected and that we are all part of a greater whole. It opened my mind to the infinite possibilities of existence.” – Graham Hancock
“LSD is not a drug, it’s a state of mind.” – John Lennon
“LSD gave me a new perspective on life. It made me realize that there is so much more to reality than what we perceive with our senses.” – Alex Grey
“LSD allowed me to see beyond the limitations of my own mind and experience a profound sense of unity with all things.” – Albert Einstein
“LSD showed me that reality is a fluid and ever-changing phenomenon. It taught me to question everything and not take things at face value.” – Timothy Leary
“LSD is a tool that can help us to explore the depths of our consciousness and expand our understanding of the universe.” – Terence McKenna
- “There is a world beyond ours, a world that is far away, nearby and invisible.”
– Maria Sabina
- “As we experience a resurgence of interest in psychedelics, we can again fantasize about a different future.”
– Erika Dyck
- “The primary importance of psychedelic drugs, as far as I’m concerned, is that they give you access to a mode of consciousness that’s completely different from the mode of consciousness we operate in every day of our lives.”
– Aldous Huxley
- “The only way to deal with this life is to immerse oneself in it. Use it to the hilt. And don’t be afraid of it or what other people think of it.”
– Ram Dass (formerly Richard Alpert)
- “Psychedelics are not a substance for faith. They are a door to authentic faith, born of encountering directly the sacred dimension of everyday experience. This is not the only gate to that discovery, but it is the most ancient and universal, and potentially the most accessible to the majority of the human race.”
– Rick Doblin
- “No wonder psychedelics are threatening to an authoritarian religious hierarchy. You don’t need faith to benefit from a psychedelic experience, let along a priest or even a shaman to interpret it. What you need is courage-courage to drink the brew, eat the mushrooms, or whatever it is, and then to pay attention, and make of it what you will. Suddenly, the tools for direct contact with the transcendent other (whether you call it God or something else) is taken from the hands of an anointed elite and given to the individual seeker.”
– Dennis Mckenna
- “If we’re approaching life, from a non-fearful perspective, where your intention is to learn, then you can extract benefit from almost any experience…Even bad trips, though they can be difficult, can serve as a valuable learning experience.”
– Hamilton Morris
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- “How long will this last, this delicious feeling of being alive, of having penetrated the veil which hides and the wonders of celestial vistas? It doesn’t matter, as there can be nothing but gratitude for even a glimpse of what exists for those who can become open to it.”
– Sasha Shulgin
- “The human mind is just incredible. It’s one of the greatest things that evolution has ever produced.”
– Terence McKenna
- “The most important thing I think that I’ve discovered dealing with psilocybin is that we’re not hooked to the body. There’s no end. There’s no death. Consciousness goes on, and it’s a trip and an exploration.”
– Kilindi Iyi
- “LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important, creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.”
– Steve Jobs
- “It’s not like we’re going to wave the magic psychedelic wand and solve all our problems, but it’s a really important tool to have in the tool kit.”
– David Bronner
- “We’re depriving millions of people of a better life by not making use of what has been known throughout history…These are tools to heal, to treat, to get to another level.”
– Amanda Fielding
- “The hallmark feature of the mystical experience, that we can now occasion with high probability, is the sense of the interconnectedness of all things – a sense of unity, a sense of openheartedness or love, and a noetic quality suggesting that this experience is more real than everyday waking consciousness. I believe that the experience of unity is of key importance to understanding the potential existential shifts that people can undergo after having these kinds of experiences.”
-Roland Griffiths
- “What psychedelics do is pull us so far out of our comfort zones, they decondition our thinking, they trust us out of everything we thought we knew about the world in order to see things as if for the first time and form new synaptic connections.”
– Jason Silva
- “In many, many ways, all of us are indebted to Indigenous peoples and their traditions and their knowledge when we are interested in these medicines.”
– Beatriz Caiuby Labate
- “You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered of the absence of consciousness.”
-Terrence Mckenna
- “In the province of the mind what one believes to be true, either is true or becomes true within certain limits. These limits are to be found experimentally and experientially. When so found these limits turn out to be further beliefs to be transcended.”
– John C. Lilly
- “Whilst I’m all for psychedelic science—I think it’s fantastic—I don’t think we necessarily have time to wait for the science to tell us these medicines are useful. The indigenous cultures have already shown us the ways.”
– Gail Bradbrook
- “Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third-story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.”
– Terence McKenna
- “To hold a fresh psilocybin mushroom in one’s hand is to possess the very nature of anything can happen. Their beauty meets their potency, both chemically and symbolically. Infatuation happens instantly and doesn’t easily fade. You will want to pay homage to their form in needlepoint, stained glass, and patches sewn onto jackets. I am Team Mushroom, give me my T-shirt, you will say. The persistent need for symbolic representation of the mushroom was something I judged as bad taste, until I became that person.”
– Brett Williams
- “We’re fundamentally social creatures, and out isolation and economic inequality is creating our distress. Part of why psychedelics are such a useful model is that they foster a desire to be in relationship. That is the fundamental medicine.”
– Mellody Hayes
- “The psychedelic process can bring profound changes and some answers. But the person still has to implement these changes and make some hard life decisions for it to fully take effect.”
– Jesse Gould
- “Science is finally showing more and more the mind-body connection and how the limbic system works, and it’s supporting the idea that emotional experiences are stored within our bodies on physical and energetic levels. If we don’t do the work to process these experiences, then we get super blocked up and into much more of a survival mode, as opposed to allowing ourselves to be present and live in the moment.”
– Mareesa Stertz
- “Turn on, tune in, drop out.”
– Timothy Leary
- “Non-ordinary states are those that typically take us out of everyday waking consciousness where I am self-aware and have inner narrative going on, to those states beyond with a whole host of different qualities…Our conscious mind is no more than the headlines on the Sunday edition of the New York Times, compared to the entire week’s news.”
– Jamie Wheal
- “Psychedelics prove to you that there’s more than one way of seeing the world.”
– James Lawler
- “Part of what psychedelics do is they decondition you from cultural values. This is what makes it such a political hot potato. Since all culture is a kind of con game, the most dangerous candy you can hand out is one which causes people to start questioning the rules of the game.”
– Terence McKenna
- “If we recognize the power of entheogenic substances to open us to the universal truth and full dimension of human experience, and if we accept the role of the shaman as hierophant and psychopomp into this realm, as enacted for example by the Huichol mara’akame, we have to conclude that today in Western society we are deprived of two key resources for complete human growth. Young people, in their hunger for meaning, will still gravitate toward entheogens. The more experienced among us may try to ease their journey, but in the absence of qualified guides not all will benefit from their experience.”
– Rick Doblin
- “The rule of thumb is the more profound the experience, the longer you should wait before doing it again. The Guild of Guides suggests a minimum pf six months between entheogenic journeys because it takes at least that long for the learning and insights to be absorbed and integrated into your life.”
– James Fadiman
- “Drugs allow us to taste the beyond but do not make us masters of the transcendental.”
– Satyananda Saraswati
- “And so much of these plant psychedelic entities are at least 4,000 years old. Now, when you experiment – when you work with these plant psychedelics, what I have found is that these entities are actually there. They are aware of you, they are aware that you are a person, and they are able to communicate with you.”
– D.M. Turner
- “Taking this drug, LSD-25, reality becomes objective… so reality is innocence, is pure, and is of divine beauty. In the same moment that the reality becomes to you this divine beauty, there is also the other side, reality is just of divine beauty because we don’t give any meaning to it, as is innocence. But in the same moment, to not give meaning to reality means that you don’t understand reality any longer. Reality becomes scenes without any meaning. So you can become a saint or you can become a crazy man.”
– Frederico Fellini
- “Through all of history, mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.”
– Ray Manazarek
- “The collective unconscious, the same as other transpersonal phenomena, is evidence that our mind is not an isolated entity but is constantly in touch with other minds as well as with the world around us. We are never entirely detached from the outside world; never entirely enclosed within our skin. Our mind and our body resonate with our environment, including other people in our environment. Our mind is coherent with the world, and when we do not repress the intuitions that link us with other people and with nature, we become aware of our oneness with the universe.”
– James Oroc
- “It can be tempting to use psychedelics to self-medicate, but without proper psychological and emotional support in your life, this can actually exacerbate your symptom. Having a good support system in place is key.”
-Sara Gael
- “I believe mushrooms can lead the human being into some form of mature sanity, leaving behind the immaturity of the last twelve thousand years.”
– Kilindi Iyi
- “I had never seen anything like Iboga. It was basically like, here’s the red pill: You’re unplugging from the Matrix. As I was unplugging, I was going down these rabbit holes of who I really am…who we were really are… how important this earth is… the spirit world… my ancestors… Personally, I have African roots, so Iboga felt like I was going home. That’s my medicine.”
– Chor Boogie
- “The primary importance of psychedelic drugs, as far as I’m concerned, is that they give you access to a mode of consciousness that’s completely different from the mode of consciousness we operate in every day of our lives.”
– Aldous Huxley
- “I think psychedelic medicine has the potential to help heal the wounds of those suffering from racial traumaand bring healing to the consciousness of those who perpetrate and perpetuate racial violence.”
– Monnica T. Williams
- “It can be tempting to use psychedelics to self-medicate, but without proper psychological and emotional support in your life, this can actually exacerbate your symptoms. Having a good support system in place is key.”
– Sara Gael
- “Psychedelics show you what’s in and on your mind, those subconscious thoughts and feelings that are hidden, covered up, forgotten, out of sight, maybe even completely unexpected, but nevertheless imminently present.”
– Rick Strassman
- “Fungi are the interface organisms between life and death.”
– Paul Stamets
- “I took acid and went: ‘Oh, I see, this makes sense.’ And in fact, when I was first told that I was bipolar, I went into the doctor, and I said, ‘well, I felt normal on acid.’
– Carrie Fisher
- “Psychedelics and plant-based medicines are powerful tools in the process of healing, particularly for the most marginalized folks living under empire, who are underserved, underrepresented and experience the highest rates of violence. Marginalized communities already have limited access to healing spaces, so I think t’s important for folks invested in justice work to center and prioritize what nontraditional forms of healing look like for these communities.”
– Oriana Mayorga
- “Subjects see new dimensions in the universe, have strong feelings of being an integral part of creation, and tend to regard ordinary things in everyday life-such as meals, walks in nature, playing with children, or sexual intercourse-as sacred.”
– Stanislav Grof
- “If life wasn’t real it would be the craziest psychedelic trip ever.”
– Joe Rogan
- “The opposite of spiritual is not material but egotistical.”
– Michael Pollan
- “In terms of shifting to a new paradigm in the healthcare system, I think the key shift needs to be one from a system that is focused on managing disease or managing disease symptoms (which is what we currently have)…toward a system focused on producing well-being. And I think psychedelics have a big role to play in that type of system.”
– Bennet Zelner
- “FDA approval, for example, of MDMA or psilocybin, is just step 1. What do you do when you’ve got a medicine now approved that doctors are afraid to recommend or prescribe because it come out of nowhere? they’re like, ‘Whoa, psychedelics were Schedule I and extremely dangerous and ‘Don’t do drugs!’ and now I’m supposed to be giving it to a patient?’ That’s a barrier.”
– Dr. Lynn Marie Morski
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